Really important High Court decision today, quashing a local authority’s council tax reduction scheme. The judgment contains many lessons about these schemes. Trafford's scheme was ultra vires, irrational, and unlawfully discriminatory, and breached the PSED @rightsnet.org.uk @nawra.bsky.social

My newest paper in the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law asks a simple question - how is administrative work shifting as we move towards technology-generated interactions, where there is no one around to help us through administrative processes?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A joy of @safety-nets.bsky.social project is doing timely research on local welfare assistance & working with Household Support Fund geeks (@alexclegg.bsky.social & @jedmeers.bsky.social). Our HSF briefings: safetynets.study/publications
& Alex's excellent 🧵 below on today's #spendingreview changes

The Household Support Fund is now the 'Crisis and Resilience Fund' and will be funded at £1 bn/yr (incl. Barnett) until the end of 2028-29. The first multi-year funding will be very helpful for local authorities delivering the scheme as they can now plan, develop their approach, retain staff etc.

My companions to the panel in the welfare citizenship & social rights stream. Kinder spirits in the panel and around it, thinking Poverty Awareness Paradigm is needed in law even if they don't call it by that name ;)
#SLSA2025
@lukedgraham.bsky.social
@slsauk.bsky.social @jedmeers.bsky.social

Hopefully today is the day this gets to 10,000 signatures! If you haven’t already signed the petition you can do it at petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social @jedmeers.bsky.social #caskale #keepcaskalive

Exciting to see the trailer for the Keep Cask Alive 2 series from the Craft Beer Channel- trailer features @jedmeers.bsky.social in the Swan in York looking excited about cask! #keepcaskalive2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BNK...